Conscious Experience

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The contributions to this book are original articles, representing a cross-section of current philosophical work on consciousness and thereby allowing students and readers from other disciplines to acquaint themselves with the very latest debate, so that they can then pursue their own research interests more effectively. The volume includes a bibliography on consciousness in philosophy, cognitive science and brain research, covering the last 25 years and consisting of over 1000 entries in 18 thematic sections, compiled by David Chalmers and Thomas Metzinger. Conscious Experience Contents Acknowledgements Editor’s Introduction The Problem of Consciousness (Thomas Metzinger) Part 1. Conceptual Foundations Introduction Why is Consciousness Puzzling? (Peter Bieri) What Would Count as Explaining Consciousness? (Robert Van Gulick) The Burning House (Michael Tye) Part 2. Sceptical Accounts Introduction Losing Consciousness (Kathy Wilkes) On the Prospects of a Naturalistic Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness (Martin Kurthen) Towards a Projectivist Account of Conscious Experience (Georges Rey) Part 3. Consciousness and the Physical World Introduction Consciousness and Space (Colin McGinn) Time-Gestalt and the Observer (Eva Ruhnau) Gaps in Penrose’s Toilings (Rick Grush & Patricia Smith Churchland) Part 4. The Knowledge Argument Introduction What Mary Couldn’t Know: Belief About Phenomenal States (Martine Nida-Rümelin) A Limited Defence of Phenomenal Information (William G. Lycan) The Antipathetic Fallacy and the Boundaries of Consciousness (David Papineau) Part 5. Qualia Introduction Qualia: Intrinsic, Relational or What? (Joseph Levine) On the Persistence of Phenomenology (Diana Raffman) Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia (David J. Chalmers) Part 6. Consciousness and Higher-Order States Introduction Is Consciousness the Perception of What Passes in One’s Own Mind? (Giiven Giizeldere) Multiple Drafts and Facts of the Matter (David M. Rosenthal) The Dissociation of Phenomenal States from Apperception (Norton Nelkin) Part 7. Information-Processing and Neurobiological Approaches Introduction How is Consciousness Possible? (Robert Kirk) Visual Information-Processing and Phenomenal Consciousness (Ansgar Beckermann) Faster than Thought: Holism, Homogeneity and Temporal Coding (Thomas Metzinger) Part 8. Artificial Consciousness Introduction Cog: Steps Towards Consciousness in Robots (Daniel C. Dennett) Artificial Consciousness (Dieter Birnbacher) Appendix I. Selected Bibliography 1970-1995 Appendix II. List of Contributors